Debunking the Autism/Vaccine Link - Penn and Teller

Originally posted by thedoctorswife
I dont have time to watch the video at the moment cos i ve got to work in a sec. My youngest daughter is 14 and remember the controversy over the
possible link between autism and the MMR. I decided to let her have it, as the chances of autism were low compared to the danger of measles. As im
writing this, we have a massive outbreak of Measles in my city, this virus is NASTY, and parents are being urged to get their kids jabbed straight
away. Its possibly only a matter of time before a case becomes complicated by Menigitus or something simlilar and theres a fatality.
Right now, im glad i had my kids innoculated.

Gee, I got my baby inoculated with the MMR, and she got a raging case of the measles.

Her doctor's response? Whoops, musta been a bad batch.

How do you know they didn't already have measles? Measles doesn't show up for a few days

You are not getting flags or stars because you posted a video debunking vaccine/autism link by the comedy magician team Penn and Teller!

Why don't you do a search of the studies of non-vaccinated children and see what percentage of them have autism. You will find A) There are very few
studies, i've only found one, B) the numbers are all but nonexistent in that study for autism C) It's not good for the pharmaceutical business to do
those type of studies, period.

Originally posted by SunnyDee
You are not getting flags or stars because you posted a video debunking vaccine/autism link by the comedy magician team Penn and Teller!

Why don't you do a search of the studies of non-vaccinated children and see what percentage of them have autism. You will find A) There are very few
studies, i've only found one, B) the numbers are all but nonexistent in that study for autism C) It's not good for the pharmaceutical business to do
those type of studies, period.

Do your own research, bottom line.

There are no studies linking Autism and vaccines, that was just Wakefield who Penn and Teller debunked

Originally posted by Rubinstein
Surely the main reason for the rise in autism is just better diagnosis

How incredibly unperceptive.

It's what happens though, it's a bit like how these days we think we have lots of obese people, but in the past nobody used to think about that,
people didn't have time to think about their weight, obesity was never tracked. Now that we track it then we think it's gone up, but it's always
been there.

Originally posted by SunnyDee
You are not getting flags or stars because you posted a video debunking vaccine/autism link by the comedy magician team Penn and Teller!

Why don't you do a search of the studies of non-vaccinated children and see what percentage of them have autism. You will find A) There are very few
studies, i've only found one, B) the numbers are all but nonexistent in that study for autism C) It's not good for the pharmaceutical business to do
those type of studies, period.

Do your own research, bottom line.

There are no studies linking Autism and vaccines, that was just Wakefield who Penn and Teller debunked

Take the above advice and do your own research, unless you are that guy who prefers his information from tv personalities.

Originally posted by SunnyDee
You are not getting flags or stars because you posted a video debunking vaccine/autism link by the comedy magician team Penn and Teller!

Why don't you do a search of the studies of non-vaccinated children and see what percentage of them have autism. You will find A) There are very few
studies, i've only found one, B) the numbers are all but nonexistent in that study for autism C) It's not good for the pharmaceutical business to do
those type of studies, period.

Do your own research, bottom line.

There are no studies linking Autism and vaccines, that was just Wakefield who Penn and Teller debunked

Take the above advice and do your own research, unless you are that guy who prefers his information from tv personalities.

Let me ask you this, please answer honestly, would you say that most of the anti-vaccine people appear to be of lower IQ than the pro-vaccine crowd?
Please, be honest on that. I mean, watch the video at the start of the thread and look at the anti-vaccine people, you can't tell me they're not
lower IQ?

Come on man, the government wouldn't kill their own people? Think about that

The same government who pulled off 911? The same government that allows GMO, fluoride, aspartame, mercury and many other poisonous substances in our
food and medicines? The same government that sends their young citizens to fight pointless wars in order to fatten the pockets of the elite? The same
government who used their own citizens as guinea pigs in nuclear weapons tests? The same government that released bio-weapons in populated transit
centers such as subways and busy neighborhoods? The same government that injected "minorities" with sexually transmitted diseases?

Whatever valid criticisms they may have of a subject are sometimes obscured by over-reliance on shock and emotion instead of logic and facts.
However, Penn and Teller at least have the decency to openly admit both their usage of emotional appeals and their bias.

Its just a biased show that only highlights enough of the facts on one side of a story to put a certain set of view across. It's simply entertainment
for the simple minded..Thats why a couple of comedians are presenting it.

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